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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) A closed racial community.
(b) Assimilation.
(c) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.
(d) Reconciliation with white culture.

2. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?
(a) That slavery was a finite stage in the development of the world consciousness.
(b) That slavery was not the worst form of domination.
(c) That slavery was the worst thing people could suffer.
(d) That slavery was worse than cultural collapse.

3. What theory culminated in the Holocaust?
(a) Egalitarianism.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Eugenics.
(d) Messianic theology.

4. Who does Gilroy say DuBois was analyzing in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Post-slavery peoples.
(b) American blacks.
(c) The black Atlantic.
(d) African blacks.

5. What is the aim of Chapter 6?
(a) To narrate the he says that of tradition as a concept in the black experience.
(b) To demonstrate the ambivalence toward 'tradition' in black communities.
(c) To cast tradition as something other than modernity's opposite.
(d) To describe the ways tradition has been harmful to the black experience.

6. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Common privation.
(c) Self-reliance.
(d) Capitalism.

7. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?
(a) A prophecy of a homeland.
(b) Homeless.
(c) A home unto himself.
(d) Wandering for a time.

8. What is the role of slavery in the black idea of tradition?
(a) A footnote to the development of sub-Saharan civilizations.
(b) A trial and opportunity for redemption through suffering.
(c) A chance to participate in the ongoing developments of modernism.
(d) The founding event.

9. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Primitive culture and modern culture.
(b) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.
(c) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(d) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.

10. What was private violence connected to in Richard Wright's account?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Public violence.
(d) Human nature.

11. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was criticized for?
(a) Hatred of women.
(b) Failing to write about specifically American concerns.
(c) Writing misogynistic male characters.
(d) Writing men and women who are victims of the capitalist system.

12. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?
(a) As a form of liberation theology.
(b) As a destructive war.
(c) As a messianic religion.
(d) As a great liberator.

13. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Repossess it.
(b) Commercialize it.
(c) Escape it.
(d) Deny it.

14. How did DuBois' birthplace affect his identity?
(a) He felt inauthentically black because he was not born in the south.
(b) He felt genuinely black because he was born in Africa.
(c) He felt aloof from American race politics because he was born in England.
(d) He felt like a spokesman for his race because he was born among them in the south.

15. What do Jews and blacks fear from a discussion of the Holocaust and slavery?
(a) Confronting all the things that cannot be known.
(b) Remembering.
(c) Loss of uniqueness.
(d) The lack of evidence from their familial histories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?

2. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

3. What did Richard Wright say was the core of modernization?

4. How does Gilroy say blacks are different from Jews?

5. What did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?

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